South by Southwest

Hollywood Film Festival sounds cool, right?

source: Indie Wire

When I worked at SXSW, I always grew tired of other festivals that gave what we were trying to do, a bad name. While regionally-based festivals like True/False, Atlanta, Sarasota, and Hamptons (among many others) try to do good work with good films, there was always something “off” about t...

Published Mon, Oct 19

YouTube Treats - Daniel Johnston at Studio SX - "I Feel Like A Monkey In A Zoo In This Place!"

source: SXSW Podcasts

As a former and sometimes current resident of Austin, I am familiar with the interesting, sad, sometimes funny, often sweet tale of Daniel Johnston. We were lucky enough to have Daniel over to Studio SX this year for a little chat. A meandering journey of an interview that takes us through hi...

Published Fri, Jul 17

YouTube Treats - Daniel Johnston at Studio SX - "I Feel Like A Monkey In A Zoo In This Place!"

source: The Latest Videos and Podcasts from SXSW

As a former and sometimes current resident of Austin, I am familiar with the interesting, sad, sometimes funny, often sweet tale of Daniel Johnston. We were lucky enough to have Daniel over to Studio SX this year for a little chat. A meandering journey of an interview that takes us through hi...

Published Fri, Jul 17

Midnight Youth Auction Private Gig For Charity. - Scoop.co.nz

source: Scoop.co.nz

press release), New Zealand The Warner Music signed band formed in 2006. It has toured in North America with appearances at the acclaimed SXSW music festival in Austin (Texas), New York as well as the famed Los Angeles venue The Viper Room. In New Zealand it played support for ...

Published Wed, Jun 17

Pride and Glory

source: FWWeekly

 TX The band played SXSW for the first time last March, and Manriquez wants to expand the band's audiences in Austin, Houston, and San Antonio. He's already begun writing songs for an EP with a target release date of January. Be forewarned: It deliberately ...

Published Wed, Jun 17

Zee Avi at Hunter-Gatherer

source: Free Times

 SC Before long, Avi was being whisked to Austin to perform at the SXSW Music Festival to Los Angeles to record her self-titled Brushfire Records debut. Avi's self-titled record very much keeps with the Jack Johnson aesthetic: it's warm and cozy; ...

Published Wed, Jun 17

AT&T: Can its network take the next wave of iPhone 3GS?

source: Computerworld

 MA Another sign of what's to come: At this years SXSW conference in Austin, so many iPhones were in use that the network became unusable. AT&T was forced to bring out some more equpment. When I visited my family in Cleveland a few months ago, ...

Published Tue, Jun 16

Sundance Review: 'Black Dynamite'

source: HitFix

 CA This elaborate parody of the blacksploitation genre just won an Audience Award at the Seattle International Film Festival, it played Tribeca, I saw it back at Sundance, and I remember thinking about it again when I saw "Black" at the SXSW festival, ...

Published Tue, Jun 16